Technology for teaching and learning in the Earth science classroom

28 days of #sciwrite – end Week 2

My second week of the February #sciwrite challenge has ended (see my kickoff post) and (end Week 1). Have I made progress? Well… I’m not feeling as good as I did with my progress in the first week. I did continue to work on a paper that discusses the initial results of the global tree banding project my students have been doing on campus. I have a few pages written and all of the data and graphs created, but I wish some of the sections were more polished and complete.

I did write up a classroom exercise with the tree banding data (not officially #sciwrite, I know). I’m visiting a middle school in Philadelphia on Tuesday, where a teacher there asked me to help her use iPads with her students for them to learn about the process of science and to work with real scientific data. So I created an exercise that will utilize the app/program Nearpod on the iPads to make my time with these students a mixture of lecture, engagement and assessment. I’ll be meeting with four different classes, and if everything goes well, this may be something else myself and this teacher will write up.